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I think -- if you have to use the word at all -- it's best to define hipsters by their actions, as kb does in the bits of his post that I quoted above. People who have responded to changing social and labor conditions by reducing their "footprint." I'm not saying that's how almost anyone uses that term, but that's my best definition and the way I (and some people I know) use it. And it seems to me a compliment; unfortunately the word as discussed above has become inherently pejorative.